Rajesh Patel

Current

• Software Development Manager at Hasbro

Past

• Senior Software Developer at Hasbro
• Software Developer at Hasbro

Education

• Thames Valley University

Connections

7 connections

Industry

Consumer Goods

Websites

• My Website

Rajesh Patel’s Summary

An experienced highly motivated software development manager with over 9 years commercial experience in software development, with a demonstrated track record of consistently delivering superior results. A proficient analyst and developer with a disciplined approach to eliciting, analysing, developing, implementing, documenting and validating business system requirements and alignment to business processes. Managing software developers as well as project managing small to medium software projects across the software development lifecycle. Theoretical and practical experience in a range of traditional and contemporary software development methodologies and techniques. Effective communicator who can interact with confidence at all levels with key business and technology leaders as well as external stakeholders. Strong ability to influence others and maintains tenacity and a balanced approach to high pressure situations.

Rajesh Patel’s Specialties:

PRINCE2, ITIL, full Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM), Iterative and Incremental Development (IID), Agile Software Development, Unified Modelling Language (UML), Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), Software Models: Waterfall, Spiral, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Dynamic Software Design Methodology (DSDM) and Scrum

VB, VB.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, ADO, ADO.NET, T-SQL, PHP, JavaScript

Rajesh Patel’s Experience

• Software Development Manager

  Hasbro

  (Public Company; HAS; Consumer Goods industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Line management of Software Developers, involving optimising and maintaining team productivity. Applying a myriad of leadership styles to the ever changing staff development needs, providing direction, support, encouragement and autonomy. Undertaken the recruitment process, setting objectives, performance management and resource planning. Supervising, coaching and mentoring developers presenting training opportunities and promoting self development.
  • Aligning and re-engineering business processes by analysing business problems and proposing optimised solutions that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency gearing towards innovation, flexibility and integration with technology.
  • Continual responsibility for project management, systems analysis and design using industry standard techniques such as BPMN and UML.
  • Collaborated to produce a global “agile” software development strategy across all development sectors in line with newly formed PMO.
  • Responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) evaluations and managing the impact of SOX regulations and supporting the development team through the life cycle.

• Senior Software Developer

  Hasbro

  (Public Company; HAS; Consumer Goods industry)

  September 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 10 months)

  • Project managed, analysed and designed a client/server application; Toy Line Plan (TLP). A global strategic financial planning system used by the finance, marketing and operations groups to calculate the profitability of a product(s). Key outputs being a TLP; a collection of P&Ls grouped by item and/or business unit for management analysis.
  • Redesigned and co-ordinated development of the Global Marketing Portal (GMP) using Microsoft SharePoint and Livelink ECM.
  • Conducted quality assurance and quality control checks with junior developers to ensure analysis, design and implemented software is of a high standard.
  • Lead business analyst on the HPPS development phases. Responsible for defining the requirements and producing functional designs making product data widely available using web services and reducing supply chain inefficiencies by implementing UCCnet.
  • Lead analyst for ECM workflow and collaboration solutions.
  • Administration of Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and Licensing.

• Software Developer

  Hasbro

  (Public Company; HAS; Consumer Goods industry)

  December 2004 — August 2006 (1 year 9 months)

  • Analysis, design and implementation of global and regional applications:
  ­ Global Marketing Portal (GMP) – Web based global collaboration and information portal which enabled the creation of a shared brand management process and a global communication vehicle for marketing groups throughout the organisation.
  ­ Legal & Safety Text – Web based European library system for storing and retrieving legislation and safety warning text appearing on all product packaging and product manuals. Specific text in various languages for each product in each market based on item information and local legislations, including style guides and placement; Change control and audit trail; Unicode compliancy.
  ­ Product Costing System (PCS) – A client/server based application enabling design engineers to generate and document initial cost predictions prior to actual factory costs are established. Some predictions used to ascertain whether a product can be a viable commodity.
  • Analysing business reporting needs from SAP BW, then designing and implementing BEx queries and Crystal Reports.
  • Designed and executed consolidation of head office SQL servers onto single instance.
  • Architected a three-tier server environment for application development, including change control and code control processes and techniques.
  • Providing high availability and resilient web hosting architecture for external corporate and brand websites, liaising with external design agencies and internal marketing personnel.

Rajesh Patel’s Education

• Thames Valley University

  BA (Hons) , Information Management , 1996 — 1998

Additional Information

Rajesh Patel’s Websites:

• My Website

Rajesh Patel’s Honors:

Prince2 Practitioner